The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss
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Part of Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
- Editor: Steven B. Smith, Yale University, Connecticut
- Date Published: July 2009
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521703994
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Leo Strauss was a central figure in the twentieth century renaissance of political philosophy. The essays of The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss provide a comprehensive and non-partisan survey of the major themes and problems that constituted Strauss's work. These include his revival of the great 'quarrel between the ancients and the moderns,' his examination of tension between Jerusalem and Athens, and most controversially his recovery of the tradition of esoteric writing. The volume also examines Strauss's complex relation to a range of contemporary political movements and thinkers, including Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Gershom Scholem, as well as the creation of a distinctive school of 'Straussian' political philosophy.
Read more- Brings together in one volume the strongest collection of scholars to date to address Strauss's thought, all leading specialists in the various fields in which Strauss worked
- Clarifies and illuminates the thought of Strauss and places his work within the major currents of 20th century philosophy and politics
- Makes use of recently published lectures and letters of Strauss's that have not been previously available
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- Date Published: July 2009
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521703994
- length: 326 pages
- dimensions: 226 x 152 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.45kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Leo Strauss today Steven B. Smith
2. Leo Strauss: the outlines of a life Steven B. Smith
3. Leo Strauss and the theologico-political predicament Leora Batnitsky
4. Strauss's recovery of esotericism Laurence Lampert
5. Strauss's return to pre-modern thought Catherine Zuckert
6. Leo Strauss and the problem of the modern Stanley Rosen
7. The medieval Arabic enlightenment Joel Kraemer
8. 'To spare the vanquished and crush the arrogant': Leo Strauss's lecture on 'German nihilism' Susan Shell
9. Leo Strauss's qualified embrace of liberal democracy William A. Galston
10. Strauss and social science Nasser Behnegar
11. The complementarity of political philosophy and liberal education in the thought of Leo Strauss Timothy Fuller
12. Straussians Michael Zuckert.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
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